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Dr. Tim Walters I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and moved to the San Fernando Valley when I was ten years old. My parents and I always had dogs and my desire to be a veterinarian goes back as far as I can remember. My first real job was working at the boarding facility attached to my local veterinary clinic, Adler Veterinary Group. When I was old enough, I transferred to the hospital and working there cemented my desire to become a veterinarian. I went to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley which is acclaimed for its pre-vet and strong science departments. I was then accepted to the vet school at UC Davis and graduated in 2007.
Dr.Pete Kvarnstrom (Dr K.) I was born in Vancouver, Washington but spent most of my following years in rural communities throughout the central coastal regions of California. On the farm is where I learned about hard work and grew to love and appreciate animals. I completed both my Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Science and my Veterinary Medical Degree at UC Davis, where I graduated in 1998. In 2005 I purchased Tustana Animal Hospital and began to mold my own practice using the knowledge that I had gathered through the years.
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Modern day requirements
Whether it is related to work or pleasure or everything personal, today's modern tech-savvy world speaks of portable and light-weight devices, connection to the external world and comfort along with ease of use. Therefore, as an individual who needs to move around frequently, I was thinking through the my basic needs that will make my life easy and yet meet the demands of office work. The thought actually triggered off when one of my friends posted in Facebook on the unfortunate closure of a very popular entertainment retail chain in Kolkata viz. Music World. That particular store in Park Street was really the first major exposure in Kolkata to having a good 'experience' while exploring CD's, DVD's all under one roof equipped with free listening and very friendly staff helping out customers. As is true across similar retailers in countries like UK, technology bring in competition people never thought off even few years ago. However, that's another topic to discuss another time.
Today's modern world is all about connectivity, cloud and mobility. Now you need high speed internet (even if you are travelling) at a very affordable price and devices that can 'tap' the ever-presence powerful ethereal internet hanging in the air. So, the first thing that you desire for is wi-fi that can boast of high speeds at a low cost or powerful mobile networks capable of doing the same (but they are still quite costly). To me, this should be considered under the definition of 'basic infrastructure' needed in any city.
For users like me, gone are those days when you needed big, heavy desktops or laptops to perform office functions or personal work. You need those applications available to the users without any local installations and hence you can actually shrink down the sizes of the devices. All you need are applications hosted up in the cloud and access of the same through high speed internet. And of course, you will be thrilled if you don't have to carry those heavy laptops – instead take some small devices (not "too small" to my liking) which can host some applications to connect to the cloud and use them on an 'on-demand' basis.
Frankly, I am currently writing this using all the above combinations through a very portable 'mini-tab' equipped with a similar sized Bluetooth connected keyboard (for ease of typing), calling the application for this blog through the cloud and using the wi-fi services to post my data to the external world.
The basic demands of human beings change from generation after generation … and as we still fight for food-clothing-shelter, the current and coming generations will start demanding for connectivity-cloud-mobility more and more.
The world will be all mobile !
If you see the above picture, this actually shows a fantastic innovation where from a device, you are getting a virtual key board appearing on any flat surface, which can communicate with a mobile and hence help in faster, easier usage just like a full-fledged QWERTY keyboard.
I personally believe that the definition of a "conventional" office is under threat – office can now mean any place in the world, whether you are at your home, or in a multiplex, or in a restaurant or even your toilet :-) All that is possible just because of the innovations like what is depicted in the picture and the huge advancement of technology in the mobile / smart phone arena.
I think the following parameters will transform how we define 'work' – whether in offices or even how we do our personal work :
– speedy access to internet with adequate bandwidth through 3G, 4G, 5G's
– advancement of cloud usage, whether in private of public domain
– enhanced security issues surrounding internet access, specially from a cloud perspective
– growth of battery back-up innovations – smaller, lighter batteries with lot of back-up power
– finally the innovations as depicted in the picture which will ease usage of typing, editing, reviewing, presenting through virtual screens, keyboards, etc
The usage of smart-phones have increased many folds and that has made life quite easy and accessible. You can remain connected, write mails or posts (like what I am doing now) on the fly, video calls with friends, relatives, clients; doing online transactions – whether be it buying some stocks or transferring money from your bank account to your parents; buy tickets to the latest destination or the recent movie; play games and relax when you want to, chat with friends located thousands of miles away from you; check the latest score by watching live TV; checking on breaking news; etc, etc. You can do all this NOW !
With the maturity and innovative developments, I am sure very soon you can review complicated power point presentations or documents on a 'big' virtual screen with a full QWERTY 'virtual' keyboard even though your mobile screen is very very small. You should be able to perform video conferences with multiple people without worrying about speed, battery back-up. We are in the middle of this transformation and anyone who is working in mobile technology or others who are associated with anything that's mobile (like me, as an user) are witness to a major global revolution !
The world will be all mobile ! And very soon …
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The Simulate _ONTAP_8.3_Installation_andSetup_Guide.pdf shows the user how to install the simulator onto ESX server by vSphere Client, which runs on Windows only.
From Mac, there is only vSphere Web Client available. Any one has done the installation with vSphere Web Client?
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Thanks shatfield.
But the installation steps are different from the ones on its guide.
I found one way, called "Deploy OVF Template..."
I always got an error message on 2b step. Please check it out.
Please let me know which step goes wrong.
Not sure. Deployment in my lab was uneventful. My environment consists of VCSA 6, ESX6, and NFS datastores hosted on CDOT 8.3p2. I've seen references to that error message on older ESX versions but they don't appear to correlate. Any other info in the logs?


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I was a little weary going into this one because of the last book I read by Williams (Miles from Ordinary) but because of my love of The Chosen One, I decided it was only fair to give her writing another shot. I was a little shocked when I opened the book and realized it was written in verse, since I hadn't taken a peek inside when I picked it up from the library. I absolutely love books written in verse (when they are done well of course) and dove right in not really knowing what to expect anymore.
I knew Williams to battle tough topics, but again, I didn't know where Glimpse was going and ended up being caught off a little off guard when I finally began to realize what was happening to Hazel and her sister Lizzie.
While I was able to figure out what was going on, Williams way of bringing forth the events that lead up to Lizzie and Hope's situation still shocked me a bit. I sort of wanted to be wrong, you know? I wanted to not think that something like this could be happening to these two characters that I had learned to like. Williams writing pulls these kinds of feelings from me when I read her books which have me thinking of them for months afterwards. For this reason alone, I am glad I gave Glimpse a chance even though I had my doubts.
The story was told so well I wasn't able to put it down until I was done. The vivid details of the atmosphere, of the settings, and of everything in the story made it feel so real and raw for me. It was a very beautiful, sad story that I definitely recommend, especially for those who are fans of verse style stories. This one is definitely a gem that has gone a little unnoticed.
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Thursday.. This was our last day in the countryside before heading to London for a few days. Connie Pauls mum decided to join us on our adventures today. We headed south today to see some rocks.. that was the theme of today Rocks.. My head and ears were still a bit congested from the plane almost 6 days later and I think i took a wee to much cold medicine which set my stomach off. I'll blame that and not Paul's driving and the British winding roads.
It took a little over an hour to get to Stonehenge. It's a very funny tourist attraction. Its a bunch of rock in a field yet thousands of people flock to it every day. Its one of those things to check off your bucket list. We saw it from the dual carriageway as we headed to the entrance. It is an awe inspiring pile of rocks. We parked our car and hopped on the trolly system that took us the mile out to the circle stones. Ok they are really cool and HUGE. Also the fact that they are still such a mystery is really interesting. Also the fact that the stone came from miles away. How did they move it? Aliens? The mysteries are endless.
We walked around the stones and I took a million pictures. We left just in time cause a herd of teenage tour groups came through. We enjoyed some tea and snacks from the cafe and headed out to our next destination.
Our second stop of the day was Old Sarum. Old Sarum is a ruined fort that was built in the Iron Ages. Set two miles from Salisbury the mighty fortress passed through multiple hands and rulers over it's lifespan. The mighty Iron Age hill fort was where the first cathedral once stood and the Romans, Normans and Saxons have all left their mark. The fort now lies in ruins but it was still quite an impressive sight. It was a bit breezy up atop the high fortress but the landscape surrounding it was beautiful.
We headed out for the Caen Hill Locks and for lunch. We found a pub in the town of Devize (The Black Horse) and sat down to wait for what felt like an eternity for our jacket potatoes for lunch. Eternity was over an hour and I was ready to eat the ketchup that was on the table. Lunch finally came and I don't know if it actually tasted good or we were just that hungry. Lunch complete we headed out to see the locks.
Caen Hill Locks
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over 1.2 km. The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, 15 locks have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep hill, and was the last part of the 87 mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal. A brickyard was dug to the south of the workings to manufacture the bricks for the lock chambers and this remained in commercial use until the middle of the 20th century.
Because a large volume of water is needed for the locks to operate, a back pump was installed at Foxhangers in 1996 capable of returning 32 million litres of water per day to the top of the flight, which is equivalent to one lockful every eleven minutes.
In the early 19th century, 1829–43, the flight was lit by gas lights
The locks take 5–6 hours to travel in a boat and lock 41 is the narrowest on the canal.
My first trip to England at the age of 2 we went on a long boat trip through the locks of England. Clare (Paul's sister) and Steve were out for the day as well and met us at the locks. We watched a few boats go through the locks. It's a really cool engineering. It was getting later in the day and we had one more round of rocks to see before heading back to the house. We drove through the town of Avalon that had more standing stones. They were charging an outrageous amount for parking so we just drove by the stones instead. I was still feeling pretty crummy with my head/stomach/to many meds so we headed home so I could take a nap before we headed out to dinner and a rally meeting.
Naps are the best medicine. I felt much better after my nap and we all headed out for dinner. Paul and I treated Connie and Roy to dinner at the Bear. Dinner was delicious. After dinner we headed into a conference room to have a Rally Car meeting. The Rally club is hosting an event the end of May and they were working on some of the final assignments. I tried very hard to pay attention but was dozing off. We headed back home and I passed out quickly. Tomorrow we are heading out to London. I am so sad to be leaving the countryside but looking forward to our London adventures.
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In a major address three months ago, US president Barack Obama said of the war on terror: 'This war, like other wars, must end. That is what history advises. That is what our democracy demands.'
Well, so much for all that. Over the past week, Obama introduced extraordinary security measures across the globe, issued a worldwide travel alert, and closed nearly two dozen of America's diplomatic missions – all out of fear of a possible al-Qaeda attack. In the process, he turned a group of bin Laden-admiring misfits into a major military threat, and re-ignited the West's panicky and confused war on a tactic; namely, terror.
Apparently, the US had intercepted a communication from the head of al-Qaeda to the leader of its affiliate in Yemen indicating some sort of plot. Britain and other Western governments joined the US in closing their embassies and consulates in the Middle East and north Africa.
Yet by the weekend, nearly all Western embassies and consulates had re-opened again.
The decision to evacuate pre-emptively, on such a massive scale, is truly astonishing. And yet it has hardly registered in political discussion in America and elsewhere. Obama's shutdown order even had rare bipartisan support in Congress.


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If Obama were a car, he'd be a lemon
Exclusive: Erik Rush says '1st black president' advantage no longer working out
It's been acknowledged and expected that the race card is going to be an issue during this election cycle, perhaps even more than it was in 2008. Still, some of the effects of Barack Obama's ethnicity as a factor in the current political climate have yet to be acknowledged.
We know that President Obama has enjoyed a great deal of political latitude because he is black; one might offer the axiom "for better or worse," but mostly it has been for the worse, since his intention remains essentially to kill America off. I believe that if Obama were just another old white guy, he would have long since been impeached. Had he avoided removal from office, right now sage Democratic elders would be advising him not to seek their party's nomination.
As things stand, the GOP leadership and 2012 candidates should be screaming for the prosecution of Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder (at the very least). Although facts relative to their high crimes are beginning to trickle out via the press – even the liberal press – they remain largely ignored by prominent Republicans, with very few exceptions.
I have previously stated the reason for this. No one wants to go down in history as having brought down America's First Black President, whether they be Democrat or Republican, politico or media mogul. Prudent from a public-relations standpoint, perhaps, but intellectually shallow, as was being fired up about Obama in the first place. While millions who voted for Obama in 2008 won't be voting for him in 2012, it's going to rub a lot of them the wrong way on the same grounds.
During the beginning of the industrial age, people across Europe and America tinkered with versions of the newly-invented "horseless carriage," essentially four-wheeled carts with various types of mechanical engines. There were thousands of patents filed in the 19th and 20th centuries for machines that later came to be known as "automobiles" ("motorcars" in Britain). Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile, he just came up with the first one that was commercially viable. As some older folks will recall, there were production automobiles (now vintage) which predated Ford that were novel and even elegant, but notoriously unreliable.
But people were fired up about them all the same. They purchased these automobiles until Ford, and later others, came up with cars that were commercially viable. To this day, occasionally auto manufacturers will introduce a model that bombs for reasons of mechanical functionality. They're called "lemons," and some states even have "lemon laws" that provide for consumer redress when people are sold pre-owned automobiles with significant mechanical defects.
President Obama is a lemon, and it's probably only fair to make such an analogy relative to a president who insists upon insinuating his administration so deeply into the automobile industry. Yes, it's just peachy that we live in an America that was finally willing to elect a black man as president, but voters (many of whom tend to look at things very superficially) simply got all fired up about the new "horseless carriage" (or the Chevy Volt, if you prefer), despite this model being terminally flawed.
Even if we ignore Obama's ushering-in-a-collectivist-totalitarian-state agenda, we can examine his relative commercial viability and find plenty of reasons why he should be relegated to the scrap heap of history. There's the fact that he took a bad economic situation in America and made it markedly worse. There's his foreign policy, which has made America a mockery on the international stage. There's his exacerbation of racial and class tensions in America. Finally, there's the fact that very few Americans are currently satisfied with his performance – and, as we all know, the customer is always right.
All of these things – until very recently – were overlooked primarily because he's black, but how's the "black" thing working for Obama now? On Sept. 26, Republican candidate Herman Cain said that he thinks blacks are "over this first African-American president thing." Now, Cain may be overconfident in this claim, and I continue to be profoundly irked at the religious zeal with which many blacks still defend Obama, but it's difficult to argue with a 25 percent drop in support for the president among blacks as represented in polling data (from 83 percent in April to 58 percent in September), even if one regards polls with an appropriately discerning eye.
So, those who may be concerned that their upcoming votes against Obama might be considered racist should bear in mind that our precious First Black President has given rise to a scenario wherein one in two blacks can't stand him! If Herman Cain happens to secure the Republican nomination, they can remain hung up on "blackness" if they like, and still cast an intelligent vote.
In the future, assuming we are successful in eradicating liberal-socialism, America will have many black presidents. Some of them will be remembered as great statesmen, and others as lemons. Barack Hussein Obama will always be remembered as our first black president, but hopefully, only for that.


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Energy EfficiencyWe all use energy at home, at work, and on the road. So, we all need to get serious about our energy use, in order to help reduce waste, manage costs, grow our economy, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Since energy efficiency costs a fraction of the price of generating power, we're making it our "first fuel." Massachusetts is a national leader in helping individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments make smarter choices about energy. These smart choices will yield better results for our checkbooks, our comfort, and our environment. Please explore our website and Mass Save to find the information and services you need to take action. It's time for everyone to get involved.
InsuranceDid you know that, if you do not keep your homeowner's insurance policy up-to-date, even a small claim could cost you thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. Knowing what your policy covers - and what it does not cover can help you avoid costly mistakes.


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I have a Kenwood DPX-8070MJ Radio in my car. The battery on my car was changed and the radio was now requesting a Security code ( CODE****). I tried all tricks but in vain. Eventually i managed to unlock it.
Here are the steps of unlocking a DPX-8070MJ radio player:
(1) Press and hold the 1 and then the 6 preset key. There are 6 preset keys or buttons on the face my radio on the left side. The radio will display a "C" just after the "CODE****"
(2) You now need to enter the code "KCAR" using a Kenwood remote control (The remote control for my radio is RC-600J). Point your remote towards the radio
(3) Press Numeric Key "1" until the letter 'K' is displayed
(4) Press Numeric Key "2" until the letter 'C' is displayed
(5) Press Numeric Key "3" until the letter 'A' is displayed
(6) Press Numeric Key "4" until the letter 'R' is displayed
(7) Press "Ent" button on your radio and YOUR RADIO WILL BE WORKING AGAIN
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro In-Depth Review
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Mobile Phone - Unboxing & Review
In this video one user shows you what you get inside the box, followed by a look at how this tiny handset performs.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Exclusive: Man in disguise boards international flight - CNN.com
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Microsoft's consumer brand is dying - Oct. 27, 2010
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Adobe Earnings: Adobe Shares Tumble on Dismal 4th Quarter Guidance - CNBC
Adobe reported fiscal third quarter earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations, but shares of the software maker tumbled in extended trade on dismal fourth quarter guidance that fell far short of Street estimates.
Shares of software maker Adobe took a hit Tuesday after the company provided fourth quarter guidance that fell far short of Street estimates.
The software maker reported it earned 54 cents a share in its fiscal third quarter, beating expectations of 49 cents a share. Revenue for the quarter rose 42 percent to $990.3 million, mostly in line with expectations of $985 million.
Adobe said it earned higher revenue in every one of its business segments.
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Search Engines: Google Search Accelerates With 'Instant' Results - CNBC
Search Engines: Google Search Accelerates With 'Instant' Results - CNBC
Google is accelerating its search engine by displaying the results as soon as users begin to type in their requests.
The new "Instant Search' introduced Wednesday means people will start to see an ever-evolving set of results in the middle of the page with each character they type into the search box. The new feature will gradually roll out throughout the rest of the day.
Instant Search grew out of Google's quest to deliver search results as quickly as possible. Google believes this feature will enable its search engine to anticipate what a person is looking for with just one keystroke.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Founder: Keep My Private Life Out of Suit - CNBC
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Founder: Keep My Private Life Out of Suit - CNBC
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life.


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The April and Wayne Show
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The April and Wayne Show is a batshit insane YouTube channel[1] run by Christian couple April and Wayne. The channel is quite possibly the best example of crank magnetism possible[citation NOT needed] and thus it is nearly impossible to watch one of their videos without at least feeling mentally disturbed. The crankery might even rub onto you a bit, so don't stay for too long! Their videos are removed pretty often, which leads to claims of persecution of Christians, though they always reupload said videos. Some even come with an extra saying something like "Jesus has once again won the battle/answered our prayers!"
Crank magnetism[edit]
Whoo boy... Exorcism, Near death experiences, The Illuminati, Satanism in the media, visions, encounters with demons, End times hysteria, demons coming to visit to talk about Hell, Illuminati whistleblowers, faith healing, the list goes on... It's a wonder this couple sleeps at night. Better yet, assuming they're lying their asses off and don't actually believe anything they're saying, though we may never know, it's an even bigger wonder their followers are able to sleep at night, or better yet, leave their houses.
They also have the most generic names for their videos ever[2]
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Company Overview
Modest Tree is an innovator in advanced training solutions and the creator of the Modest3D software suite to create 3D interactive training. We are experts in creating advanced, interactive digital content. We employ mixed reality and virtual reality technology to create leading commercial and military training applications.
Product and Services
Modest Tree is an innovator in creating advanced, interactive digital content. Our training solutions team develops mixed and virtual reality applications, mobile interactive applications, simulators and serious games technology, providing commercial and military clients with leading applications that accomplish their training goals, are engaging and highly realistic.
Advanced Interactive Training Solutions:
Our revolutionary mixed reality applications allow maintenance crew in any industry to have access to training and information right in front of them to aid in the performance of their work, facilitate communication with other staff members, place orders for parts or to get approval for their work. This results in a work process that provides access to rich content with increased efficiency. Mixed reality applications can be applied to a variety of maintenance and operations processes. The Modest Tree training solutions team has extensive experience with creating advanced mixed reality applications for the aerospace and defence industry.
Our virtual reality training allows companies to immerse their employees in surroundings and situations that are too dangerous and expensive to complete regularly in real life. This results in employees being more prepared for the real world applications. Our virtual reality training applications are used to provide highly engaging operational and maintenance training.
Modest3D Software Suite:
Modest Tree is the creator of the Modest3D software platform, providing a full range of software to rapidly create 3D interactive training applications, including multi-pathed advanced training and 3D interactive presentations. Modest3D has been recognized as the software suite of choice by the Canadian Military for multiple years running and is the chosen 3D training development tool by a wide-range of defence companies seeking to provide cost-effective advanced training solutions to their customers.
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Phonak Hearing Aids Toronto, Vaughan, Richmond Hill
Phonak is a division of Sonova Holdings and is one of the worlds leading hearing instrument manufacturers. Its main headquarters are located in Stäfa, Switzerland and employs approximately 9,500 people worldwide. It was founded in 1957 by businessman Ernst Rihs.
Other than hearing aids, the company also specializes in the production of cochlear implants, wireless communication, hearing protection devices, and covert communication systems.
In 2006, the company launched the Hear the World initiative, which is aimed at raising awareness for the topic of hearing and hearing loss worldwide. Its main goal is to inform people about the importance of hearing, the social and emotional implications of hearing loss, and the available solutions for those with hearing impairment.
Lyric Hearing Aids Canada
Lyric is the world's first 100% invisible extended-wear hearing device. It can be worn 24/7 for-months-at-a-time and there are no batteries to change, no maintenance needed and no daily insertion or removal is required.
Lyric is comfortably placed in the ear canal by a trained hearing professional with no need for surgery or anesthesia.
Audeo V
Phonak Audéo V hearing aids not only provide exceptional speech understanding and comfort but also appeal to your individual style and preferences. A modern, sleek design, four models, and four performance levels for every budget. The feather-light and slim Audéo V – strengthened with high-tech composite materials for more robustness – sits comfortably behind your ear. You will forget they are even there.
Unique to Phonak, Binaural VoiceStream Technology™ enables two Audéo V hearing aids to send speech from one ear to the other – as if your hearing aids were talking to each other. This leading-edge technology provides better speech understanding in even the most challenging listening environments. Be it in a noisy restaurant, or taking a stroll outdoors.
Understanding, interacting, and engaging in conversation are what connect you with loved ones, colleagues and to the world around you. Audéo V hearing aids focus on speech understanding, comfort, ease-of-use, and are tailored to give you the listening experiences you desire.
Bolero Q
Phonak Bolero Q helps you to hear and understand in even the toughest listening environments.
Binaural VoiceStream Technology™ detects the speech signal and ensures that you can hear it clearly in both ears. This means that you will understand more in more listening situations.
When wearing hearing aids wind noise interferes with speech understanding and listening comfort. With the Speech in Wind feature, Bolero Q enhances your ability to understand speech well, even when the wind is blowing.
When noise reaches a level that makes understanding one person in a crowd difficult, auto StereoZoom is automatically activated, allowing you to focus on the voice you want to hear.
Baseo Q
Phonak Baseo Q is built on state-of-the-art Phonak Quest technology that is also used in the most advanced Phonak products. They are designed to balance comfort and speech understanding – right from the start.
WhistleBlock eliminates unpleasant whistling of the hearing aid before it becomes audible to you or the people around you.
Phonak Baseo Q includes one of the most effective features in hearing aid technology: directional microphones. They reduce background noise and can significantly improve your understanding of the conversation partner in front of you, for example in a restaurant.
Phonak Baseo Q15 is available in three Behind-The-Ear models each with an attractive durable housing in four colors designed to match hair and skin tones. Baseo Q15 covers a broad range of hearing needs.
Virto Q
Phonak Virto Q custom products are individually crafted to your own ear canal to fit perfectly and comfortable in your ears. With Virto Q you benefit from the broadest selection of unique features on the inside, with the highest degree of discretion on the outside.
When wearing hearing aids, wind noise interferes with speech understanding and listening comfort. With Speech in Wind, Virto Q enhances your ability to understand speech well even when the wind is blowing.
When noise reaches a level that makes understanding one person in a crowd difficult, auto StereoZoom is automatically activated, allowing you to focus on the voice you want to hear.
As soon as you hold the phone to your ear, the caller's voice is automatically streamed to the other ear. Hearing the conversation in both ears results in superior sound quality and improved understanding.
Naida Q
The superior technology in Phonak Naída Q products offers a host of unique features designed to enrich the listening experience in your day-to-day life.
Enjoying laughter, children's voices or the subtle sound of rustling leaves under your feet enriches your hearing world.Hearing the nuances of life's soundscapes is part of the joy in rediscovering the pleasures of good hearing.
Phonak Naída Q has unique and proven technologies that will exceed your expectations.
SoundRecover makes high-pitched sounds such as birds singing, crickets chirping, children's voices and the ring of a doorbell audible again.
Phonak Naída Q comes with a host of comfort features that can be set to your individual needs. They effectively eliminate uncomfortable and unwanted sounds whenever they occur.
Phonak CROS can improve your hearing and understanding in a variety of life's situations. However, if you need to connect to more modern multimedia technology, or hear more in loud noise, simply add one of our Phonak wireless accessories.
Phonak CROS enables you to catch the sounds from your non-hearing side – whether it is the voice of a friend or environmental sound.
This advanced wireless technology sends sound wirelessly from your non-hearing side (via a tiny CROS transmitter) to a discreet modern hearing aid (receiver) on your hearing ear. The result? You hear sounds from both sides in your good ear.
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The Clothing Game can be played at the Clothing Shack in Presto's Grove.
Presto the Raccoon tells all new users to go there to get free clothing items when they first arrive in Dizzywood. The game has different levels, but all of them are very easy.
The game shows various tiles of clothing-related items (shirts, boxes, bags, etc.) If two or more of the same type of tile are adjacent, you can double-click them to remove them. The goal of the game is to remove enough items to cause a star-shaped icon to fall to the bottom of the screen. When you are successful, you get a free clothing item as a prize.
If you have already won all of the clothing items from the Clothing Shack, then the game will award you 30 coins each time you play without losing for 30 seconds.


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Hotel Services & Amenities
If you're looking for Ventura lodging, Crystal Lodge is one of the best. We make your satisfaction a priority. You can enjoy a meal or snack in our fully furnished kitchenettes* and the chance to relax in our cozy beds to watch a movie or your favorite show on our HD Plasma/LCD televisions after a fun day at the beach. Ventura lodging is truly at its best at Crystal Lodge Motel.
General Information
Check-In: 3PM (15:00)
Check-Out: 11AM (11:00)
Upon Request:
- Coffee Makers
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- Hair Dryers
- Full Kitchen (microwave, refridgerator, stove and sink)
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Mad Dash in the Park – Race 3
Competitor and Spectator information is now available, the Course is subject to FINAL APPROVAL subject to the weather so follow our updates here, on FB & Twitter!!! Timings have been altered for this Race and Race 4 so please read the Competitor Instructions (if you arrive early sorry but you'll have to eat more bacon butties). NOTE: there are NO On The Day Entries, and PLEASE ride share to the event as parking is limited.


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WASHINGTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS STORY. — WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee plans to add several key health-care proposals to the tax cut bill it drafts this week, including provisions designed to make it easier and less expensive for Americans to buy medical insurance, according to Senate strategists.
Among them will be provisions that would prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage to people with existing medical problems and would enable workers who have health problems to continue their current medical insurance if they change jobs.
Others would expand Medicare coverage to include preventive care such as cancer screening and would permit self-employed people to claim a tax deduction for the full cost of their health insurance.


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Shareholder A person or a legal entity who owns equity or preference shares of a company. The proof of his ownership is the share certificate, which he may hold in multiple numbers, each certificate comprising a certain quantity of shares.
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Cuir De Lancome by Lancome 50ml Eau De Parfum for Women .
Reformulated from the fragrant archives of lancome's vintage scents, this is a scent for women that was first created in 1936, and relaunched for la collection by lancome .
Cuir is the french word for leather;suede, citrus and saffron notes are at the heart of this wonderful composition.
The fragrance was created by perfumer calice becker.
** Boxed, SEALED & Brand New **
We only sell Genuine, Brand New and Authentic Products in original packaging.
** We do not sell imitations, knock-offs or testers. **
Other products and sizes are also available. Please ask.
Our perfumes are in stock and ready to mail.
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Kenan Sofuoglu led both legs of today's two-part World Supersport Championship race from start to finish for a convincing victory for HANNspree Ten Kate Honda. The impressive race win enables the young Turkish rider to extend his championship advantage from seven to 27 points over his nearest rival with a tally of 70.
Sofuoglu got off to a strong start from third on the grid for his first race at Donington Park's 4.02km track. He seized an early lead on the opening lap and set the pace with a blistering time of 1.34:577 - smashing James Whitham's existing Supersport lap record of 1.37:565. Despite a clutch problem with the CBR600RR and convincing challenges from Robbin Harms, the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda rider maintained station until the race was red flagged on lap 12 due to a multiple rider accident at Redgate.
The 22-lap race was re-started with 11 laps left to run and Sofuoglu - using his spare CBR600RR - once again stole the early advantage. However, Harms remained determined and passed the HANNspree Ten Kate Honda rider on lap 20. The series leader fought back to regain his place at the front of the pack one lap later and remained there until he passed the chequered flag.
The race win was particularly significant due to the fact that Sofuoglu's closest rivals were unable to complete the race. Kevin Curtain, Broc Parkes and team-mate Sébastien Charpentier failed to start the race due to injuries sustained during practice sessions and Fabien Foret retired early from the opening leg. Charpentier hopes to be back in action for round four of the championship at Valencia.
Ronald ten Kate, Team Manager:
"Today Kenan had to do the honours for us with Sébastien out of the race and he really delivered. In the first part we could see he had some problems with his clutch so after his fantastic start he began to gradually drop back. You could say we were lucky that the red flag came out and we were able to change the bike. Again, he got off to a demon start and led the pack quite easily, but then he got a cramp in his forearms which slowed him slightly. Once again he has proved to be a great racer - he may not have been the quickest guy out there in the last laps, but for sure he fought hard for the lead and he maintains the championship lead. We don't want to take anything for granted because as we have seen this weekend, anything can happen. I hope that all three of the riders that crashed out this weekend will be back with us in Valencia for some more exciting Supersport racing."
Kenan Sofuoglu:
"I am really happy because I have been very lucky this weekend. I was experiencing a clutch problem in the first part of the race and I was thinking to myself I cannot finish this race. I thought I would be joining the other championship title contenders with a zero point finish. Then I saw the red flag and I thought this is my chance. I was able to change the bike and pick up where I had left off. I started pretty well but then my forearms were really in pain and the last few laps were difficult. I had a small advantage from the first race so I managed to hold on and I got the win."
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Crush the CPA Exam - Study Smarter, Pass Faster
About This Show
Welcome to Crush the CPA Exam's podcast! My name is Bryce Welker and I'm here share the tips and tricks I used to pass all four sections of the CPA exam on my first try! No matter where you are in the process of becoming a CPA, I'm here to guide you through the obstacles you'll encounter along that journey! Whether it's comprensive reviews of cpa study materials, comparing cpa review courses and helping you find the best one for your needs, or giving effective study tips to help you pass faster - I've got you covered. Now let's get started and crush it!Read more »


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Stripe and I arrived early to setup our booth and to block off a section of the parking lot for our cover bike search, and before long, Lonnie got there and began taking photos and helping line up cover bike participants.
As soon as we had everything set up, bikes started rolling in, and we had several lovely ladies register for our cover model search. Randall "Sea Hawk" Hauk, our videographer wasn't able to make it that night, so Stripe volunteered to shoot some footage for our Cover Bike & Cover Model Search video.
The parking lot began filling up very quickly, and the popular Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Band Edge of Forever started playing onstage. Since it was a bit too cold out, the Worth Girls weren't able to wash bikes that evening, which was a real bummer. By the time we cut off our cover bike and cover model search registration around 7 p.m., we had several awesome bikes and six gorgeous ladies signed up to compete for our cover model search.
As soon as the bike search registration was closed, the judges began the difficult task of narrowing down the bike entries to their top three choices. Around 7:30 p.m. I used the PA system to introduce the cover model search contestants to an excited crowd. As I introduced each contestant, they made their runway walk across stage. The girls posed for a while so everyone good get some good photos, and so the judges could compare notes to make their top selections. The judges handed me their votes for the top cover bike and cover model search entries, and it was time to calculate their votes and announce the winners.
The cover bike search winner of the day was Denny Davis' 2001 American Ironhorse Slammer, and the two cover bike search finalists were Scott Lambert's 2005 American Ironhorse Texas Chopper and Soupy's 1961 Harley-Davidson FL. It was then time to bring the girl's back out to a cheering and excited crowd. Kylei, from Parkville, Missouri took first place, and Makayla from Platte City, Missouri and JR from Shawnee, Kansas were the two finalists. We'll be shooting Kylei on Denny's bike for our January 2013 cover.
Because it was already dark, we had the cover bike winners move their bikes to a better lit area of the parking lot so we could take photos of them on their bikes. We also shot our three cover model search winners on the three winning bikes, which drew quite a crowd.
We had a great time, and I want to thank Cathy, Nick, Rick, and the entire crew at Worth Harley-Davidson for hosting a great cover bike and cover model search. I'd also like to thank all the bikers who attended the event, as well as the cover bike & cover model search participants who joined in the fun.
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Minnetonka Women's Chrissy Bootie Slipper
Product Info Item# 68016
Minnetonka® Women's Chrissy Bootie Slipper adds the coziness of wrapped-in-warmth with the ankle-grazing pile collar.
- Highest quality suede leather or plaid fabric upper
- Pile-lined
- Rawhide laces
- Padded cushion insole
- Thin rubber outsole
- Handmade
Product Features:
|Full grain premium suede leather or plaid fabric
|Acrylic pile
|Foam cushioning
Style Number: 40031, 40035 WOMENS, 44812 WOMENS
More About Minnetonka Moccasins
The 1960s brought the hippie movement and with it, a desire for the ankle-high fringed moccasin that became a national fad. The 70s birthed the Urban Cowboy craze and the Minnetonka Thunderbird beaded moccasin rose to the occasion. In the 80s the Driving Moc, originally created in Europe as a high-performance driving shoe, became a popular item and is still a best-seller all these years later.
If your feet are longing for comfort, hoping for durability, and craving a unique style, Minnetonka is for you!


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Day 15: SHE IS BEANIE
Everyone who knows me knows that I do not shy away from my faith. I first heard about SHE IS from my beautiful friend Shantelle. Shantelle was wearing a shirt that said " Elle est forte" which means " She is strong". Not only did I love that saying but I also loved that the shirts were made by a woman who founded the company is 2014 locally in Vancouver!
The clothing company has many shirts and accessories based off the beautfuil bible quote:
Proverbs 31:25 "She is clothed in strength and dignity, and laughs at the time to come."
These words describe the character of the woman who fears the Lord. Her inward clothing displays divine wisdom, giving her confidence to face the future with its unexpected challenges.
I absolutley love this quote as it really explains the strength of a woman, her power and her confidence.
I am giving away an awesome beanie!!! by SHE IS CLOTHING!!!!
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Do Data Breaches Hurt A Company's Stock Value?
Over the last few years, conflicting reports have been released on whether data breaches affect the stock value of companies. The question at the center of this debate remains: "If my American business suffers a cyberattack, will its value plummet on Wall Street?" The Harvard Business Review issued a staunch "no" back in 2015, but new findings made by Comparitech are showing that there's more to the story. Comparitech discovered that stock prices are lowered, both after the initial public reveal and throughout the years to come. Read More


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|Howto Forge: Apache2-SSL-PHP5-Howto Posted Wednesday, June 1, 2005 @ 10:45 PM by mayhem
|This document describes how to install an Apache web server (2.0.x) with SSL and PHP5 (with Zend Optimizer and ionCube Loader) enabled.
This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web...
Complete story available here. (Source: LinuxToday)
|Sentry CD - A different firewall approach Posted Wednesday, June 1, 2005 @ 10:42 PM by mayhem
|If you want to set up a Linux-based firewall, there's no need to run a bloated distribution that installs everything but the kitchen sink. If you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, and like having total control over your system, then Sentry Firewall CD (SFCD) is just what you need. It is a highly configurable, bootable CD that takes a minimalist approach to firewalling.
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The purest example of the Greek desire to comprehend, a desire which in him would have nothing to do with what was not strictly knowable. If later philosophers appear softer by comparison, it is perhaps because of a revivifying compromise they made, one more acceptable and more tolerant of the discourse we perhaps need; but, by the same token, one can perhaps be forgiven for sometimes thinking them dwarfed by the inhuman shadow of the master.
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After much deliberation I have indeed decided to join a lot of other crafters out there and have now joined the blogging world. I'm really not too sure what direction this is going to take, but I think I will use it as a way to track my projects, save ideas for later, share some inspiration, find some motivation, and connect with some of the crafty bloggers out there that I idolize!!
It's been so beautiful here and I haven't had much of a chance to get out and enjoy it (I was in bed with a 24 hour stomach bug yesterday). My new crafty obsession of the moment is photography. I've been checking in with Tatertots and Jello's weekly photo tips and can't wait for the next one! My goal for tomorrow is going to be to get out and take pictures focussing on the color BLUE!
If you have a moment, I'd love if you popped over to my profile to find out a little more about me!


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Contest Title: Not Like You
Medium: Acrylic
Style: Painting
Property of Mint Creatives, Design Co.
Category: Sketch Journal
August 2015, this pair of Converse shoes won second place in "Not Like You" Chucks Design Contest in Hamburg, Germany. The focal point of the design is one of Gustav Klimt's masterpieces, "The Kiss". The design printed on the shoes is a replica, that was painted in 2005. The actual size of the replica is 18 x 24 inches, done on canvas with acrylic paints.


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in denim underpants.
These shrunken ass cheeks in Daisy Dukes are the reason I call her "goat arse," and while I have made a career of mocking Nicki Minaj for getting butt implants I'm now thinking that's exactly what Miley should do. (Although I notice her vagina isn't hanging out for a change so maybe she was on her way to church.)
For your added viewing
Lena Dunham in Daisy Dukes will make your eyes vomit.
Mischa Barton in Daisy Dukes will give your eyes a colonic.
This ballsy dad in Daisy Dukes will scar his daughter for life.
Marie Sutherland in Daisy Dukes will ... oh you did NOT just fall for that one, did you? Fools.
Bonus Miley round: Watch the full interview with Barbara Walters in the post below.


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from Tori's Blog, author of The Joy of Pregnancy
All the recent controversy over changes in health care plan has reminded me about the maternity medical coverage items you'll want to investigate with your own insurance company.
All the recent controversy over changes in health care plan has reminded me about the maternity medical coverage items you'll want to investigate with your own insurance company.
Congratulations, you're pregnant! During the excitement of the coming months, you'll have a lot of questions: What should I eat? How much should I exercise? How do I plan for the birth? What will labor and delivery be like? As a perinatal nurse and childbirth educator, Tori Kropp has the answers. In The Joy of Pregnancy, she tells you everything you need to know to have a happy, healthy pregnancy without overwhelming you.
I am 35 weeks pregnant, and I have been said to be at high risk of complications because I have gestational diabetes and take insulin. My doctor now wants me to have a "biophysical profile." What is this, and why is it done? Is it routinely done, or is this unusual?...Lilia April 30, 2018
Are you too an expecting parent in need of answers from an expert?
Ask Tori RN®, by registered nurse and resident author of The Joy of Pregnancy, is a helpful and reassuring resource for parents-to-be.
Tori Kropp, R.N., author of The Joy of Pregnancy, is a perinatal nurse who has delivered thousands of babies at the prestigious California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Known as "the Dear Abby of pregnancy," Tori has been interviewed on national television and radio and in national print publications, including CNN, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Washington Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution and Chicago Sun-Times. She lives in Marin County, California, with her family.


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Blank Pixel is an independent studio of video game creation, composed of two French developers having a long experience in the creation of games and applications.
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Long-time New Orleans resident Roark Bradford was a writer and editor for the Times-Picayune and the author of numerous articles, stories, and books in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of Bradford's eight books and numerous shorter pieces depicted southern African American folklife and culture from a white perspective. One of his books, Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, was adapted into a highly successful Broadway play and, later, a popular motion picture titled The Green Pastures.
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford was a native Tennessean whose family owned a great many acres planted with cotton. He graduated from the University of California School of Law, served as a US Army officer in the Panama Canal Zone during World War I, and began his journalistic career in 1920. He did most of his newspaper work for the Times-Picayune, where he worked or socialized with Lyle Saxon, William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, and many other aspiring writers. Bradford and Saxon, his best friend among the group, perpetrated a hoax on Times-Picayune readers by creating stories about Annie Christmas, a Louisiana folk hero, whom the two writers made up as kind of a female Mike Fink figure.
Bradford became Sunday editor of the Times-Picayune before leaving to devote himself full-time to writing fiction in 1926. Early success came when Bradford's story "Child of God" appeared in Harper's magazine in 1927 and later was awarded an O. Henry Prize as one of the best short stories of the year. In the next decade Bradford published eight books, including Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun,This Side of Jordan, and John Henry.
The author's main fictional focus was on rural African American life, with a particular emphasis on religion and folklore. Bradford's treatment of his subject matter and his characters' actions and speech are problematic, to say the least, for contemporary readers, since they reinforce racial stereotypes and often contain arrant sentimentality. Moreover, much of the humor is flat and dated. Ol' Man Adam became the popular play and film The Green Pastures, adapted for the stage in 1930 by Marc Connelly. Six years later, the film adaptation gave star status to African American actors Rex Ingram and Eddie Anderson.
Roark and Mary Rose Bradford lived comfortably in the French Quarter during most of the 1930s and 1940s. Their son, Richard, became a successful author; his most notable novel is Red Sky at Morning. Roark Bradford served in World War II, and while in French West Africa contracted amebic dysentery, the continuing effects of which shortened his life. Beginning in 1946 he taught creative writing at Tulane, but this late career was brief. He died on November 13, 1948, in his adopted and beloved city of New Orleans.Author: James W. Thomas
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Thomas, James W. "Roark Bradford." In knowlouisiana.org Encyclopedia of Louisiana, edited by David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 2010–. Article published May 23, 2011. http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/roark-bradford-2.
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Thomas, James W. "Roark Bradford" knowlouisiana.org Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Ed. David Johnson. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, 23 May 2011. Web. 17 Aug 2018.
Suggested Reading
Bradford, Mary Rose. "The Story of Annie Christmas," in A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore, ed. B. A. Botkin, p. 36. New York, NY: Crown, 1955.
Flora, Joseph M., et al., eds. Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Thomas, James W. Lyle Saxon: A Critical Biography. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1991.
Tracy, Steven C., ed. John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play.New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2008.
Major Works by Roark Bradford
Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun (1928)
This Side of Jordan (1929)
How Come Christmas (1930)
Ol' King David an' the Philistine Boys (1930)
John Henry (1931)
Kingdom Coming (1933)
Let the Band Play Dixie (1934)
The Three-Headed Angel (1937)
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Early career physicians have extremely poor knowledge of skilled nursing facilities, showing that more robust training is needed to ensure that physicians can oversee effective transitions into SNFs, according to investigators at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The UCLA team created a 10-item, multiple choice pre-test that was given to 67 internal medicine residents prior to their mandatory SNF rotation. The mean number of correct answers was 4.9, the investigators found. Even after training, some residents still consistently answered certain questions incorrectly. The questions were about what a skilled nursing facility is, how it is staffed and what services it provides.
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Once again, the Lincoln County Summer Meals program will be providing free breakfast and lunch throughout the summer in locations around the area. The Boothbay Region YMCA, Camp Knickerbocker and Clifford Park are some of those sites, and from Monday, June 25 until Friday, August 24, ANY child age 0-18 can come to these locations to receive a free breakfast and lunch, no questions asked.
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There is so much that is noteworthy and intriguing about Nikola Tesla, that it is difficult to know just where to start, and how much to include in this short biography. Let us begin, though, by acknowledging that this eccentric, outlandish man was, perhaps, one of the greatest geniuses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His inventions, some of which have been attributed to others, have had an immeasurable impact on our lives today. Furthermore, some of the concepts that he envisioned are still being developed and improved upon almost 60 years after his death. Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and July 10, 1856 in Smilgan, Croatia which, at the time, was Austria-Hungary. It is a fitting precursor to the events that shaped his unusual life. From an early age, it was evident to Tesla's parents that he possessed an unusually advanced intellect. Thus, when Nikola was young, his father attempted to hone his memory and reason through various mental exercises. When it was time to send his son to college, the senior Tesla supported his son's desire to become an engineer, even though he desperately wanted him to follow in his own ministerial footsteps. Tesla's older brother, Dane, perished at the age of 12 as the result of an equestrian accident. Nikola had shot a pea at Dane's horse, causing it to throw the young man. His brother's resulting death may have been a catalyst for a number of unusual characteristics that developed in Tesla over his lifetime. For instance, he claimed to have what could be characterized as psychic abilities, which manifested themselves in the form of vivid hallucinations. In addition to his claims of precognitive abilities, Tesla exhibited numerous symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He avoided physical contact of any kind, and feigned injuries to absolve him of the obligatory handshake. He required that the number of footsteps he took in a walk be divisible by the number three, and calculated the exact volume of his food before he ate it. He could be seen measuring his food with a ruler, and dipping portions of his meal into water so that he could measure how much liquid was displaced. At times, when he was concentrating on a project, he would forget to eat for days at a time. In one such occurrence, the result was complete amnesia that lasted for several days. In accordance with what many think of as the eccentricities of a genius mind, Nikola Tesla did not use blueprints and prototypes. Instead, he developed inventions in his mind, and then built the final product from his own memory. He was also a terrible businessman, which is likely the factor which caused him to die in near obscurity and complete poverty. Nikola Tesla began inventing things when he was a child. One of his first inventions was a simple hook-and-line device that he and his friends used for catching frogs, which was so effective that they severely diminished the local frog population. He also created a windmill-like machine that was powered by June bugs, which were glued to the blades and caused the rotor to spin. As he got older, his inventions became more and more advanced. Tesla currently has over 700 patents in his name. Included in these are the Tesla Coil, which is an induction coil used in radios, televisions, and various forms of wireless communication. He is also credited with the development of the wireless transmission of electricity, the creation of remote control boats and submarines, and an "electrotheraputic" device now known as ultrasound. After his death, the Supreme Court ruled that he, and not Guglielmo Marconi, was the rightful inventor of the radio. He has also been acknowledged as the inventor of the fluorescent bulb, the vacuum tube amplifier, and the X-Ray machine. Given the scope and broad application of his inventions, this little-known genius is certainly a hero in our modern times. Tesla attended college at Graz Polytechnic Institute where he was thrilled to be able to study electricity. Perhaps he was propelled by a desire to please his parents, or perhaps he hoped that, one day, he would go to America and meet his hero, Thomas Edison. Whatever the reason, Tesla pursued his education with remarkable vigor, studying and attending courses from 3:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night. He was known as an exceptional student, even if he did tend to question his instructors to the point of infuriation. It was during his studies at Graz that he became interested in what was then a far-fetched theory of alternating current, which would allow the transmission of power over long distances without the use of wires. In 1882, Tesla obtained a position at the Continental Edison Company in Paris, where he quickly excelled and developed a reputation as an outstanding engineer. Within two years, he realized his dream of going to America to meet the president of the company, Thomas Edison. Alas, the meeting foreshadowed the first of a number of poor business decisions on Tesla's part. Edison saw his bright employee as somewhat of a crank because of his interest in A/C power. In an attempt to impress his employer, Tesla proposed to make Edison's D/C dynamos 25% more efficient in a period of two weeks. Edison obviously believed that Tesla was incapable of such a feat. He verbally promised the young inventor $50,000 if he could complete the task. When Tesla not only finished his project on time, but exceeded the efficiency goal, Edison claimed to have been joking about the monetary reward. Tesla became enraged and quit on the spot. Shortly thereafter, Tesla was approached by investors who wanted to market the arc lamp that he had developed, and together they formed the Tesla Electric Company. By this time, Tesla had developed in his mind a plan for the construction of an A/C dynamo. When he attempted to pursue this project, his associates voted him down, and he was thus estranged from the business. After his departure, the company began to fail, resulting in the diminishment of his stock values. Before long, he was broke. To top it off, he no longer had the rights to his arc lamp, so he could not pursue a business of his own. It was at this point that he went to work shoveling on a labor crew for $1.00 a day. When A.K. Brown of Western Union became aware of the fact that this genius was wasting away, he furnished Tesla with a laboratory and backed him financially in his pursuit of A/C. When Tesla assembled the dynamo that he had conceived of in his mind, it worked perfectly. When he presented his work in a highly publicized lecture, he became an overnight celebrity among engineers. Included among his admirers was George Westinghouse, who negotiated with Tesla to produce the dynamos. In 1895, Tesla's dynamos went to work harnessing the power of Niagara Falls, and sending power 22 miles, to Buffalo, New York. Because this new form of power conversion and transmission was so affordable and efficient, it meant that electricity would no longer be relegated only to the upper-class. Now, it would be affordable and accessible to the every-day citizen. Tesla stood to make a fortune based upon the contract that he signed with Westinghouse. However, when the businessman complained of the drain it would impose on his company, Tesla tore up the contract in a gesture of friendship. It is unfortunate that his generosity was not reciprocated, and that he, once again, was left to deal with the consequences of a na¥ve business decision.
In 1891, Tesla was proud to become an American citizen, and he wanted to give his countrymen a gift: Free electricity. An attorney named Leonard Curtis, who was also an officer at a Colorado power company, financed Tesla and provided him free electricity with which to conduct his experiments. Tesla set up a lab in Colorado Springs, which resembled a giant barn, atop which was a 180' tower that he called a "magnifying transformer." He believed that he could use the earth's surface as a giant conductor of energy. Though he did succeed in lighting 200 lamps from a distance of 25 miles, his experiments went awry in 1899, when he pumped ten million volts of electricity into the earth's surface. The current went through the earth at the speed of light, and returned like ripples in a pond. The resulting resonant rise was spectacular, producing 130' bolts of lightning, and thunder that was audible over twenty miles away. Unfortunately, it also caused the Colorado Springs power plant to burst into flames. Needless to say, he was no longer able to get free power, much less funding for his experiments. Before long, it became apparent to Tesla that his goal of giving free electricity to the populace was less-than-popular among the financial giants who dominated the power industry. Thus, he changed the intended outcome of his work. Instead, he claimed, he wished to provide a way of transmitting communication, such as news and weather reports. He went back to New York and convinced J.P. Morgan, the renowned businessman, to back him financially and set him up with a laboratory on Long Island. Due to a series of mishaps, Morgan quickly became reluctant to fund Tesla's research. When Tesla, in an attempt to win over his benefactor, revealed that the true nature of his work had to do with free power distribution, Morgan withdrew completely. Around the same time, Tesla entered into a military contract with the German Marine High Command to build sophisticated turbines for use in warships. However, when World War I began, he decided to give up his royalties for fear of being charged with treason. Once again, Tesla was left rich with ideas, but painfully short on funds. Tesla did attempt to assist the U.S. Military in its defensive efforts during the war. He claimed to have developed a death ray, which was some sort of particle accelerator that concentrated energy into a thin beam. If the claim is true, his idea is likely a precursor to the Strategic Defense Initiative. As the story goes, he tested the device one night, aiming it at a remote area near the North Pole. He later learned that, though no evidence of impact could be found, scientists believed that a meteorite had collided with the earth in a remote area of Siberia called Tunguska, causing the destruction of 500,000 square acres of land. Tesla was convinced that he had caused the massive destruction by overshooting his target, and dismantled his invention immediately. Six years later, he wrote to President Wilson and offered the use of his death ray as a way to knock down enemy attackers, but got only a form letter from the President's secretary in reply. In 1917, Tesla proposed the construction of a station that would send out waves of energy, enabling operators to determine the location of enemy aircraft. Though the War Department dismissed Tesla's "exploring ray" as a joke, a generation later, "radar" was implemented to assist the Allies in World War II.
Nikola Tesla died in New York on January 7, 1943, at the age of 87. He was financially destitute, and lived in the Hotel New Yorker, where he shared his room with a flock of pigeons that he considered to be his only friends. He left as his legacy a number of businesses that he helped to build, but from which he was shut out. His colleagues derided him because of his outrageous ideas, and he was generally considered to be a lunatic. The extent to which he was ridiculed is exemplified by the fact that the 1940's "Superman" comics featured a mad scientist named Tesla, who employed the use of death rays. It is evident that some sense of fear existed with regard to this great inventor. After his death, the Custodian of Alien Property impounded his papers, diplomas, letters, and lab notes, even though he had been an American citizen since 1891, and therefore was not an alien. The government subsequently decided that his work posed no threat to national security, and his nephew, Sava Kosanovich, later inherited his possessions. These items are now housed in the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. One can only hope that Nikola Tesla's name will one day take its rightful place in history books, and become a recognized household name, as it should be. Perhaps then we can begin to appreciate the impact this great intellect and humanitarian has had on our lives and the lives of our progeny.
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For at least two centuries, Africa has been portrayed in the West as primitive colonies or as backward independent countries. With the devastation of HIV/AIDS on the continent for the past quarter century and the recently outbreaks of the Ebola virus, that portrayal has only been reinforced. Civil wars between Christians and Muslims are tearing at the social fabric of Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Egypt.
However, we at Mount Calvary know that there is much more to the continent than these disasters. Tanzania is filled with many of the most caring, loving human beings to be found anywhere, and these friends have helped to change many of our lives. The Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT), Ethiopia and Namibia are among the largest Lutheran bodies in the world. The continent is now home to some of the world's fastest-growing economies, with millions being lifted out of poverty. Primary education is now almost universal, and up to half of the age-group are now in secondary schools, many provided by Lutheran and other Christian denominations. Despite the recurring disasters and health challenges of all too many Africans, Lutherans and other Christians have led the way in providing clinics and hospitals throughout the continent. Hundreds of millions now live in democracies of one form or another and the continent has had been blessed with the leadership of such Nobel Peace Prize winners as Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu of South Africa, Wangari Mathei (Kenya), Kofi Anan (Ghana), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (a Lutheran from Liberia)
Members of Mount Calvary (Krafts and Bennetts) have served as short-term ELCA missionaries to teach at Tumaini University and the Maasai Girl's School, Dr. Charlie Jones has taught and performed surgery at Selian Hospital, and some 50 members and friends have made short visits as part of our African Aids Orphans Projects. For 16 years, we have annually sponsored up to 60 orphans and conducted building projects at the Huruma Center, built a girl's dormitory at the Upendo Centre, and provided financial assistance to orphan projects in Zambia, South Africa, and Kenya.
Most of all, our lives have been changed by our long term relationship with Mama Chilewa, Gabriel Nzalayaimisi, and the numerous children, who despite having nothing, have taught us about joy, laughter, love, and caring. They have taught us about ubuntu a Nguni word which speaks to the fact that "our humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. I am human because I belong. It speaks about wholeness. It speaks about compassion. A person with ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous, and willing to share. (Bishop Tutu).